From Nature Poem

at the Felix Gonzalez-Torres exhibit, not the one splashing his face with coldwater in the bathroom

but we r who we r

like jambalaya.

Let's say I was raised on television and sugar and exhausted parents workingevery job that poked its head from the tall grasses of opportunity

who didn't go to college but still read poetry to each other and wrote songsand made sculptures and read law documents at the beach while I threw likeseaweed on my cousins

but opportunity to what?

My current envy list includes ppl who make decisions, in general. Envy is ashit tit. I meet a boy and I miss him. Time, a paragon of confidence, taps meon the shoulder and asks

If I get legit anxiety when someone calls from a number I don't know, cos it'slike—who still calls?

I've always wanted to know, I say, why they call you father

You can't reflect and decide at the same time. If language is a structure borneof the desire to communicate, can I really be blamed when Money says anxi-ety is only real when the face breaks and I'm chipping like paint?

From Nature Poem

I have chosen—you have chosen—he or she had chosen—we have chosen—they have chosen

whose origin word, ceosan, meant something more like to taste or to try,"only remotely related to choice"

an illusion of capitalism, like control

Ppl often look unfazed by Kenyan university massacres and the onslaught ofJames Franco. Behavior is mutable. Mirrors love attention.

Like everyone, I read a Choose Yr Own Adventure w/my fingers keepin tabs on variousforks in the text, to backtrack when reachin a dead end

How often to you choose hunger, or cheese burger? A space in btwn is hardto see when you're all borderlands—

We're on the rooftop of the Wythe Hotel. It suggests exposure. It shoots up like teeth, the cool breeze sobering like a newly sober exturning softly into peaches from the light behind the bottles

He cups my neck (you hate all his friends) The hairs on his face like an English garden (his sister's a racist) Taller than I remembered (he played youlike a dolly then tossed you aside c'mon TEEBS)